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December 22, 2004, Wednesday

An article on Thursday about the creation of a task force to study ways to improve the New York City Board of Elections included an imprecise reference from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to the board's executive director, John Ravitz. Last year, a...

By MIKE McINTIRE; Reporting for this article was contributed by Michael Cooper, Brian McDonald, Jennifer Steinhauer, Howard O. Stier and Sabrina Tavernise in New York, Jason George in New Jersey and Alison Leigh Cowan in Connecticut

With a huge turnout testing New York City's voting system, voters in New York complained of long lines, confusion and broken machines at some polling places.

For decades, the Upper East Side of Manhattan was where Republicans could count on having at least one of their own elected to public office. It was the home of Republican liberalism, represented most prominently by John V. Lindsay, Nelson A....